Betty Smith Quotes

At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny things became my escape.

Might we not say that every child at play behaves like a creative writer, in that he creates a world of his own, or, rather, rearranges the things of his world in a new way which pleases him?

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

A child's sense of reality vs. fantasy can be a bit blurred at the preschool age.

As a child I did a lot of imaginary bits, you know. It depends on the individual, I enjoyed then knocking the nail in, I enjoy knocking nails in walls to hang pictures up, but I also enjoy thinking 'I'm gonna do that' but I actually won't do it, I enjoy imagining doing things just as much.

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

It's fun to pretend you're a little kid, you get to use your imagination and live in a world that's not real.

By listening to certain words as a child listens to the sea in a seashell, a word dreamer hears the murmur of a world of dreams.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks of your day, or are at the mercy of flawed giant beings, then the desire to bend the laws of the world by magic is strong and deep.

Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.

When I was a little girl, I loved theater a lot and I was always playing and making my own worlds.

Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.

While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.

I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.

I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don't have a toy, they'll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

I got very carried away with my 'Harry Potter' life and we did have school but I didn't study. I just had fun.

When I was small, I was always thinking about different worlds in my head.

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

My daughter has a vivid imagination, and so does my son.